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The genus Ruscus is in the family Asparagaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ruscus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ruscus aculeatus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Ruscus colchicus Yeo	Accepted		WCSP
Ruscus hypoglossum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Ruscus hypophyllum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Ruscus hyrcanus Woronow	Accepted		WCSP
Ruscus × microglossus Bertol.	Accepted		WCSP
Ruscus streptophyllus Yeo	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 26 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ruscus. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ruscus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 26 species names for the genus Ruscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	26.9%
◕	Synonym	16	61.5%
◕	Unplaced	2	7.7%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.8%

All names

The status of the 33 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ruscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	21.2%
◕	Synonym	23	69.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	6.1%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 26 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ruscus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	7	16	0	0	23	88.5%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	1	3	11.5%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Ruscus, are as follows: